Tioga County PA Archives Obituaries.....Balfour, Robert C.  August 1, 1864
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 The agitator.: (Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pa.): August 17, 1864
At City Point, on the 1st inst., of malarial fever, Robert C. Balfour, son of
Alexander and Mary Ann Balfour, soldier in the Army of the Potomac, aged 16 years
and 6 months. He enlisted April 1, 1864, in the 187th Reg’t. Pa. Vols., Co. I, Capt.
Little. He took part in the battle of Petersburg, on June 16, and came out unharmed.
Shortly after, he was attacked with fever, and placed in hospital at City Point,
where he died. His father visited him several days before his death, but found him
too feeble to speak, and barely able to testify by signs to the fact of recognition.
Robert bad been a Sunday School pupil in the Episcopal Church before he went to the
war; and be will be remembered with sadness by his young classmates who regarded him
with affection. He had long desired to enter the military service, and at last
having obtained the consent of his parents, to whom he was always fondly obedient,
he went forth and mixed in the great strife. The young soldier has fought his last
battle; but, being dead, he yet speaketh!

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